L’hygiène à Paris en 1780 - sans papier toilette et avec des déchets dans les rues

In 1780, Paris was one of the most densely populated cities in Europe—and also one of the dirtiest. The streets were littered with garbage, the gutters overflowed with sewage, and the stench that permeated the capital was simply unbearable. Toilet paper didn't exist. Parisians used whatever they could find: rags, leaves, hay, or sometimes nothing at all. Chamber pots were emptied directly from windows into the street, often without warning—and woe betide anyone caught in the wrong moment. In this historical immersion, discover the brutal reality of hygiene in Paris on the eve of the Revolution: mountains of garbage, the complete absence of modern sewers, widespread disease, and daily habits that would seem utterly unimaginable to us today. Rich or poor, no one escaped the filth of this city. The nobles protected themselves with perfumed handkerchiefs, while the common people lived with their feet in mud and filth. Settle in comfortably and immerse yourself in the dirtiest Paris in history—that of 1780, when hygiene was still just a distant dream.